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Another hopeful for ! And now to work on her color palette changing.



EDIT NUMBER TWO: History has been updated!

Edit: Color Palettes for different glamours located Here

Name: Katherine Overture, Exiled Flaith of the Shiansach House

Age: 133

Birthday: 21st of Rains

Gender: Female

Height: 5'9"

Race: Dark Elf

Class: Mage-Illusionist-Enchanter

Occupation: Unemployed

City: Koben

Allegiance: Koben Empire

Personality: Cruel, manipulative, and selfish. Driven, flirtatious, and doting.

A woman of indomitable will and unmistakable talent, if arrogant and set in her ways. Uncaring and disdainful toward those that draw her ire, but surprisingly cheerful, clingy, and affectionate toward those in her favor. Conversely, those that aren't in either of the two categories are treated politely, if dismissively. Her speech is unusually eloquent and wordy, oftentimes deemed either rigorously formal or alternatively uncomfortably close, in any language that she cares to speak in.

Katherine is a woman of many masks, almost always selecting the personality that she'll show to any given individual based on what she knows of the person in question and how much she assumes they know of her. Despite her core traits remaining the same, the minute mannerisms that define most interactions are a constantly shifting amalgamation, making each of her interactions a unique experience, perhaps even for her. This makes her surprisingly bad at interactions with with more than one other person, especially when they have exceptionally varied impressions of her, resulting in an exponential breakdown of her masks the more people she's forced into conversation with.

Under pressure from figures in power(be it physical, mental, or authoritarian in nature), she always reverts to a much nastier and crueler persona, doing away with all her fancy words and resorting to short, sharp phrases and rude gestures and comments, while always testing the boundaries to an almost suicidal degree. She becomes even more clearly perturbed when said pressure relates to her glamours or her condition, struggling any way she knows how in order to escape or overturn whatever force has bound her to comply, be it via insults, vain attempts at seduction, confusing illusions, or simply stabbing at the offending force.

History:

Born in the Iadlish town of Duilliúr as the firstborn of the noble house of Shiansach, the babe Katherine's albino nature was a shock to her relatively free-thinking parents. Well-wishers were immediately barred from the estate, and relatives all gathered in their respective groups to discuss what was to be done. Albino children were unmistakably freaks among the dark-skinned elves, and the sentiment was almost unanimous. The family, all the cousins, uncles, grandparents, and even the newly blessed parents, felt that the newest Flaith Shiansach should be immediately be 'put down' rather than let the child bring about some of the horrors that the Iadlish region held in reserve for light elves.

And that would be the end of young Katherine, save for the pity of a childless human approaching his twilight years. A longtime friend of the Tiarna of Duilliúr, he protested vocally and eloquently to the dark elf patriarch, arguing about the freedoms of the times and the barbaric act that seemed to be justified by nearly every dark elf present. And finally, after days of argument that severed nearly every lasting connection that the human had made with the dark elves, he emerged from the hunched manor of the Shiansach with the albino child tucked away in his arms, under the geas that neither would ever return

And so began the life of the young Katherine of Garland, the oddly afflicted child.

She was raised in Koben proper, in a small but stately manor that her human caretaker had acquired over his long life, and for a time lived as the daughter of the once-celebrated Ser Joshua Garland. She was a bright and inquisitive youth, and, despite her condition, adventurous, always returning covered in sunburn, no matter what clothes the aging man clad her in to disguise her patently corpse-like coloring. He took precautions keep the young girl safely inside the estate. However, despite initial misgivings at her shockingly pale features, she proved to be quite the charmer, always aiming to please Garland's visitors and servants with sweet words and overly cute gestures of affection.

And so time passed for the odd little girl.

Honeyed words only got her so far, she found, and as tutors came and went, spurred by the aging Garland's drive to give whatever weapons he could to his adoptive daughter, her talent in the illusionary arts came to light.

At once, her horizons broadened and the young elvish girl was no longer the creepily pale figure who wandered around with a silver tongue, but a dark elf true and proper, her deathly pale skin and weirdly pink eyes hidden behind an array of glamours. She blossomed into a fine young woman, spreading her talents and greedily devouring more and more knowledge toward the upkeep of her illusions. With her mutation hidden, she could spread herself out and find more friends and even lovers, flaunting her power and her charm, lording her talents and, eventually, her upbringing.

And perhaps it would have remained that way, were it not for an incident that sparked in on the cusp of her twenty-first year.

An relative of the Shiansach house, one who knew of the mar that the Tiarna of Duilliúr had been struck, came to visit the once-powerful Garland with news of a new child, a Flaith to replace the one that had been so unfortunately lost years ago. The careless and caustic remarks, meant to provoke the old man for his seeming betrayal, roused anger from the young lass and sparked a flaming row that ended rather dismally for all parties involved and took the last of the spark out of Katherine's protector and savior.

The incident, heartrending for the old man, proved to be a final blow to his ailing vitality and Ser Joshua, last of the Garlands, died a few months later, leaving Katherine with both freedom, and what little money the man had left. His last wishes bade the young elf to take her pride and live as she wanted.

Thus began a life of petty court-hopping and seduction, like the dark elf had dreamed of from when she was small.

Katherine, once Shiansach, and once Garland, changed her name for a final time to keep the name of her adoptive parent pure. She was now Overture- the common tongue's translation of Shiansach. Katherine herself gained many patrons inside of the Koben courts, as she kept well away from her own kind and those who would seek to peer past her glamour to reveal her 'true' nature.

The most recent leg of her nearly hundred-year long stint of playing around with the humans landed her as the would-be mentor to the young Thania Nejeb Tanzer , a noblewoman who managed to strike up a fast rapport with the sharp-tongued and sharp-minded Dark Elf. As the war erupted, she followed the young woman into Koben, and has remained there as a companion in the difficult times, both for her own amusement and out of legitimate concern.

Additional info:

  -Upon her birth, she would have been heir to the Shiansach family's name, were it not for her condition immediately disallowing her from holding the title of Tiarna.

  -Eldest of five siblings, despite having never met the youngest two. Holds no interest in her own family.

  -Holds an absolute mastery of glamours and the more self-centered illusions and has allowed her considerable talents atrophy to the point that she can only hold a single other target in thrall of her illusions, making her a wonderful duelist but a terrible brawler.

  -Keeps well away from her opponents and prefers to use knives in both the throwing and the stabbing sense to do physical damage.

  -Her body is flawless, without blemishes or markings of any kind save for a pair of scars right above her waistline.

  -Dislikes both Iadlish and Reliur high-society. She holds a special hatred for the Queen's Assassins. Her childhood dream, long ago, was to join with the much exalted heroes, but now she only views them as a nuisance.

  -Will not strip her glamours under nearly any circumstances as she is well aware of how much she could be mistaken for a light elf.

-Albinism, has a few lovely 'perks' in addtion to wanting to be slaughtered by her own race: She's forced to wear heavy clothing in sunlight which she augments with glamours to make them less obvious, and her eyesight is notoriously bad in the daylight, even in comparision to her fellows. It's getting worse as the days drag on, and she worries about the day it fails completely.

+Likes+

Sweets, Meat, Wine, Knives, Humans, Men, Women

-Dislikes-

Perceptive People, Dark Elves, Reliur, Authority

Relationships:

  -House Shiansach: Her birth 'family', consisting of her well spoken father (327), a would-be doting mother(284), and her assorted younger siblings

  -Ser Joshua Garland: Katherine's benefactor, protector and adoptive father, the only parental figure that the exiled Shiansach ever knew. He died many, many years ago at the ripe age of eighty-seven.

  - Thania Nejeb Tanzer: Katherine's would-be protege and favored noble, Thania has been learning the various arts of being a lazy noble under Katherine's rather hands-on instruction.

  -Gon : Thania's bodyguard number one, and a fellow elf. Someone that amazes Katherine with her surprising innocence and willingness to split a man's skull in half.

  -Maris Gewehr :Thania's bodyguard number two, a small girl that Katherine gains an inordinate amount of pleasure from teasing and pulling out of her shell.

-Ara : One of the, if not the only, dark elf that Katherine counts among the small brood of treasured relationships that she keeps. She's the little sister to Kat's big sis personality.

RP Preference: Googledocs > Chat > Skype

Description
Another hopeful for ! And now to work on her color palette changing.



EDIT NUMBER TWO: History has been updated!

Edit: Color Palettes for different glamours located Here

Name: Katherine Overture, Exiled Flaith of the Shiansach House

Age: 133

Birthday: 21st of Rains

Gender: Female

Height: 5'9"

Race: Dark Elf

Class: Mage-Illusionist-Enchanter

Occupation: Unemployed

City: Koben

Allegiance: Koben Empire

Personality: Cruel, manipulative, and selfish. Driven, flirtatious, and doting.

A woman of indomitable will and unmistakable talent, if arrogant and set in her ways. Uncaring and disdainful toward those that draw her ire, but surprisingly cheerful, clingy, and affectionate toward those in her favor. Conversely, those that aren't in either of the two categories are treated politely, if dismissively. Her speech is unusually eloquent and wordy, oftentimes deemed either rigorously formal or alternatively uncomfortably close, in any language that she cares to speak in.

Katherine is a woman of many masks, almost always selecting the personality that she'll show to any given individual based on what she knows of the person in question and how much she assumes they know of her. Despite her core traits remaining the same, the minute mannerisms that define most interactions are a constantly shifting amalgamation, making each of her interactions a unique experience, perhaps even for her. This makes her surprisingly bad at interactions with with more than one other person, especially when they have exceptionally varied impressions of her, resulting in an exponential breakdown of her masks the more people she's forced into conversation with.

Under pressure from figures in power(be it physical, mental, or authoritarian in nature), she always reverts to a much nastier and crueler persona, doing away with all her fancy words and resorting to short, sharp phrases and rude gestures and comments, while always testing the boundaries to an almost suicidal degree. She becomes even more clearly perturbed when said pressure relates to her glamours or her condition, struggling any way she knows how in order to escape or overturn whatever force has bound her to comply, be it via insults, vain attempts at seduction, confusing illusions, or simply stabbing at the offending force.

History:

Born in the Iadlish town of Duilliúr as the firstborn of the noble house of Shiansach, the babe Katherine's albino nature was a shock to her relatively free-thinking parents. Well-wishers were immediately barred from the estate, and relatives all gathered in their respective groups to discuss what was to be done. Albino children were unmistakably freaks among the dark-skinned elves, and the sentiment was almost unanimous. The family, all the cousins, uncles, grandparents, and even the newly blessed parents, felt that the newest Flaith Shiansach should be immediately be 'put down' rather than let the child bring about some of the horrors that the Iadlish region held in reserve for light elves.

And that would be the end of young Katherine, save for the pity of a childless human approaching his twilight years. A longtime friend of the Tiarna of Duilliúr, he protested vocally and eloquently to the dark elf patriarch, arguing about the freedoms of the times and the barbaric act that seemed to be justified by nearly every dark elf present. And finally, after days of argument that severed nearly every lasting connection that the human had made with the dark elves, he emerged from the hunched manor of the Shiansach with the albino child tucked away in his arms, under the geas that neither would ever return

And so began the life of the young Katherine of Garland, the oddly afflicted child.

She was raised in Koben proper, in a small but stately manor that her human caretaker had acquired over his long life, and for a time lived as the daughter of the once-celebrated Ser Joshua Garland. She was a bright and inquisitive youth, and, despite her condition, adventurous, always returning covered in sunburn, no matter what clothes the aging man clad her in to disguise her patently corpse-like coloring. He took precautions keep the young girl safely inside the estate. However, despite initial misgivings at her shockingly pale features, she proved to be quite the charmer, always aiming to please Garland's visitors and servants with sweet words and overly cute gestures of affection.

And so time passed for the odd little girl.

Honeyed words only got her so far, she found, and as tutors came and went, spurred by the aging Garland's drive to give whatever weapons he could to his adoptive daughter, her talent in the illusionary arts came to light.

At once, her horizons broadened and the young elvish girl was no longer the creepily pale figure who wandered around with a silver tongue, but a dark elf true and proper, her deathly pale skin and weirdly pink eyes hidden behind an array of glamours. She blossomed into a fine young woman, spreading her talents and greedily devouring more and more knowledge toward the upkeep of her illusions. With her mutation hidden, she could spread herself out and find more friends and even lovers, flaunting her power and her charm, lording her talents and, eventually, her upbringing.

And perhaps it would have remained that way, were it not for an incident that sparked in on the cusp of her twenty-first year.

An relative of the Shiansach house, one who knew of the mar that the Tiarna of Duilliúr had been struck, came to visit the once-powerful Garland with news of a new child, a Flaith to replace the one that had been so unfortunately lost years ago. The careless and caustic remarks, meant to provoke the old man for his seeming betrayal, roused anger from the young lass and sparked a flaming row that ended rather dismally for all parties involved and took the last of the spark out of Katherine's protector and savior.

The incident, heartrending for the old man, proved to be a final blow to his ailing vitality and Ser Joshua, last of the Garlands, died a few months later, leaving Katherine with both freedom, and what little money the man had left. His last wishes bade the young elf to take her pride and live as she wanted.

Thus began a life of petty court-hopping and seduction, like the dark elf had dreamed of from when she was small.

Katherine, once Shiansach, and once Garland, changed her name for a final time to keep the name of her adoptive parent pure. She was now Overture- the common tongue's translation of Shiansach. Katherine herself gained many patrons inside of the Koben courts, as she kept well away from her own kind and those who would seek to peer past her glamour to reveal her 'true' nature.

The most recent leg of her nearly hundred-year long stint of playing around with the humans landed her as the would-be mentor to the young Thania Nejeb Tanzer , a noblewoman who managed to strike up a fast rapport with the sharp-tongued and sharp-minded Dark Elf. As the war erupted, she followed the young woman into Koben, and has remained there as a companion in the difficult times, both for her own amusement and out of legitimate concern.

Additional info:

  -Upon her birth, she would have been heir to the Shiansach family's name, were it not for her condition immediately disallowing her from holding the title of Tiarna.

  -Eldest of five siblings, despite having never met the youngest two. Holds no interest in her own family.

  -Holds an absolute mastery of glamours and the more self-centered illusions and has allowed her considerable talents atrophy to the point that she can only hold a single other target in thrall of her illusions, making her a wonderful duelist but a terrible brawler.

  -Keeps well away from her opponents and prefers to use knives in both the throwing and the stabbing sense to do physical damage.

  -Her body is flawless, without blemishes or markings of any kind save for a pair of scars right above her waistline.

  -Dislikes both Iadlish and Reliur high-society. She holds a special hatred for the Queen's Assassins. Her childhood dream, long ago, was to join with the much exalted heroes, but now she only views them as a nuisance.

  -Will not strip her glamours under nearly any circumstances as she is well aware of how much she could be mistaken for a light elf.

-Albinism, has a few lovely 'perks' in addtion to wanting to be slaughtered by her own race: She's forced to wear heavy clothing in sunlight which she augments with glamours to make them less obvious, and her eyesight is notoriously bad in the daylight, even in comparision to her fellows. It's getting worse as the days drag on, and she worries about the day it fails completely.

+Likes+

Sweets, Meat, Wine, Knives, Humans, Men, Women

-Dislikes-

Perceptive People, Dark Elves, Reliur, Authority

Relationships:

  -House Shiansach: Her birth 'family', consisting of her well spoken father (327), a would-be doting mother(284), and her assorted younger siblings

  -Ser Joshua Garland: Katherine's benefactor, protector and adoptive father, the only parental figure that the exiled Shiansach ever knew. He died many, many years ago at the ripe age of eighty-seven.

  - Thania Nejeb Tanzer: Katherine's would-be protege and favored noble, Thania has been learning the various arts of being a lazy noble under Katherine's rather hands-on instruction.

  -Gon : Thania's bodyguard number one, and a fellow elf. Someone that amazes Katherine with her surprising innocence and willingness to split a man's skull in half.

  -Maris Gewehr :Thania's bodyguard number two, a small girl that Katherine gains an inordinate amount of pleasure from teasing and pulling out of her shell.

-Ara : One of the, if not the only, dark elf that Katherine counts among the small brood of treasured relationships that she keeps. She's the little sister to Kat's big sis personality.

RP Preference: Googledocs > Chat > Skype